Across Europe, game sales for May are down 17% compared with the same period last year. This is mostly due to the fact Zelda came out last year. To put it into context, Zelda in May 2023 sold more than the entire Top Ten in May 2024
by Turbostrider27
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This is mostly due to the fact that the world’s economy is fucked and no one can justify spending $100 on a new game these days.
Nothing remotely close to Zelda came out in May though so makes complete sense. People were anticipating Zelda Totk for years
NOTHING came out in May this year. I have Gamefly game lock, and skipped the whole month.
If the top game of last year sold more than this year’s top 10 combined, and sales are only down 17%, that seems obscenely good. There must be a strong long tail of games selling. I’d naively expect more of a power law distribution which would result in a much larger decline if the top seller tanked so extremely
Zelda is a pretty good game.
TOTK is on my very long backlog so I’ll get to it hopefully
Yeah but absolutely nothing noteworthy came out in May, apart from maybe Hellblade 2 which was a massive flop.
Everything else was indie games, PC ports and remakes.
I read this as “we need a new zelda every year with the same quality of TotK” and I’d be okay with that
It’s already been a year? Time is broken
How’s this even news, what even came out in May this year lol
I mean; Id also suggest most people are waiting for a Switch2/Super Switch release?
Nothing ever comes out in summer and no idea why game developers/publishers don;t take advantage of it. 1 good game in a sea of nothing (hell even an average game) would sell like hotcakes. The next game I truly want day 1 is in August
Only two major games came this month
A remake of niche gamecube game (Paper mario TTYD)
A sequel of 2016 game that’s available on Gamepass day one (Hellblade 2)